Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. The outcome of the midterms. And even future president ial elections. Essentially, alex jones has been deleted from these websites. You wonder if hell have any influence Going Forward because the private companies who have an incredible amount of control over the internet. Laura thats the point. Controlling who has a voice and who doesnt on these Monster Platforms is tantamount to limiting speech and its also viewpoint discrimination. Back in february, facebook launched a new algorithm that would cause top conservative pages to see a dramatic drop in traffic. And this included personal pages. President trumps Facebook Page saw a 45 drop. Diamond and silk said their content was similarly blocked on facebook. Facebook along with other social media sites have taken aggressive actions to silence
conservative voices by deliberately distributing
Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Same goes for the internet. If they can shut down political speech on the grounds that its hateful, you have to ask does this end. If you want to see hate, check out some of the comments on my twitter feed after the show tonight. Hes a casual racist, of course, and an antisemimite who called white People Potential humans, praised hitler. He has a million followers. And what about those who traffic in violence. If facebook really cares about standards or safety, i dont think they would be granting Antifa Chapters from coast to coast with their black hoods and all. And by the way, if theres so much concern over Conspiracy Theories like the one alex jones
peddles, well, do moments like this give
The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Unleashing a nerve agent in the uk. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. Republican Chris Collins of new york first sitting member of the congress to back the President Trumps bid in february 2016. He was such a strong supporter of mr. Trump collins at the Republican National convention was asked to formally second mr. Trumps nomination to be his partys nominee. I have the honor of seconding the nomination of donald j. Trump as the next president of the United States of america but today the congressman was arrested by the fbi. Moments ago the congressman walked out of Federal Court in new york city where he was arraigned. Prosecutors this afternoon detailing the grand jury indictments of the new york republican, his son and his sons fiancees father for 13
counts of securities fraud, wire fraud and false statements. All stemming from an alleged Insider Trading schem
we re back with the politics lead r. the lights blinking red for republicans in november? last night s special election race in ohio s 12th congressional district too close to call. troy balderson is calling victory but danny o connor did not concede given the numbers of votes outweigh the lead. it s a seat in republican hands since ronald reagan. let s talk about the results. jason candor, a former secretary of state in missouri and have a new book titled outside the wire. partly focuses on your life in politics and the military and life for democrats in 2018 and beyond. what lessons are you taking from the ohio 12th race last night where it looks like the republican probably has a victory? first of all, as you mentioned this district is republican since 1982. i was born in 1981 so that seems
and the lawyer s like, i m looking at you. he does this with everybody. but it doesn t make it right. he needs to really hold back and let the litigators try their case. all right, guys. he did the right thing when he talked about manafort and why they re going after him. he told the truth about that, a truth too few people are willing to recognize. but he doesn t need to be doing that in front of the jury, though. but when he s saying, you have tears in your eyes. that was not in front of the jury. he says, no, i don t. it is very dramatic. all right, guys. thanks so much. that ohio 12th race is still too close to call. but republican has a slight lead. we ll bring you updates when the race is called. but an immigrant who was set to be deported is now accused of putting a police officer in critical condition. the tragic story next.